yorkshireluke
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Post by yorkshireluke on Apr 29, 2024 23:49:14 GMT
While I'm here, there must be someone here who knows the answer to this: I'm filling in the Emergency Proxy form, does anyone know who I need to support the document if my reason for not being able to vote is due to being a poll clerk? Is it someone from the council? Feel some of you will find this amusing. Got it sorted the old fashioned way by heading to town hall and asking for electoral services. A bit of back and forth with a staffer going up and downstairs they bring me back my form now all filled in and hand it back to me. I say thanks then immediately hand it back as they're the ones I'm meant to give the form too. Stressful times for all involved!
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European Lefty
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Post by European Lefty on Apr 29, 2024 23:57:41 GMT
I always thought poll clerks got to vote themselves at a different point in the day when they weren't on duty?
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Post by edgbaston on Apr 30, 2024 0:03:31 GMT
I always thought poll clerks got to vote themselves at a different point in the day when they weren't on duty? Nearly always have postal votes as they are allocated to a station somewhere else in the district from where they live.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 30, 2024 0:16:56 GMT
I always thought poll clerks got to vote themselves at a different point in the day when they weren't on duty? How? If they are officiating in a polling station which is not the one where they actually live, it’s impossible. The staff in a polling station work for the full 15 hours.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 30, 2024 0:25:32 GMT
I have been planning my journey to go to the count at ExCel Centre on Friday & Saturday. I went to the GLA count when they had it in the big location in north London in 2008, 2012 and 2016 (but not 2021). Was it at ExCel in 2008 & 2012? Or somewhere else? If so, where? I am planning my journey but it's not looking familiar. My memory is that in 2008 and 2012 it was in a big building right next to the tube station, so there was no capacity for getting lost. N.B. I have a very bad sense of direction, so I will need to know where to go. I don't know where it was held in the past, or details of the count this time (e.g. whether you need to go to a different entrance) but the ExCel is pretty much directly attached to the Customs House for ExCel DLR station - there is a signed exit via a bridge and walkway that leads you to the entrance of the centre. The information which I have received today is that we are advised to go to the Prince Regent station on Docklands Light Railway, because that’s the nearest to the eastern entrance where the Croydon & Sutton count is going to be. (Custom House station on the Elizabeth Line is better for the western entrance). I have now planned my journey properly. But the question I was really asking was: where was it in 2008 and 2012? I know that it was definitely in the same place both times, and I know that I definitely went there - but I can’t remember where it was, and my memory of it doesn’t match the planned journey to ExCel. I think it was somewhere vaguely in northwest London, but I can’t remember where. I remember that it was in a big building which was very obviously right next door to the tube station. All the talk of this year’s count being in ExCel was making me think that it’s just the same place again, except that I realised it isn’t when I was planning my journey. P.S. I think it was Olympia in Kensington (page 31 paragraph 6.6) www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf_file/2012-GLA-election-report-web.pdfAnother weird thing about it is that I know that I definitely went to the GLA count there in 2008 and 2012, and I definitely didn’t in 2021, but I can’t remember if I went in 2016. I was at the count in 2000 in Croydon, and I wasn’t at the count in 2004 because the count was in Sutton and because we had a by-election count in Croydon on the same day.
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Post by greatkingrat on Apr 30, 2024 0:32:54 GMT
Try asking this guy If I had known that those pretty bar-charts were available to watch on a website then I might have stayed at home and not bothered going to the count. At Kensington Olympia we had 5 of the 14 constituencies counting. We had screens showing the progress of the count as bar-charts, but only for the 5 constituencies (Cr & Su, Me & Wa, SW, WC, Ea & Hi).
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Post by johnloony on Apr 30, 2024 0:38:29 GMT
Try asking this guy If I had known that those pretty bar-charts were available to watch on a website then I might have stayed at home and not bothered going to the count. At Kensington Olympia we had 5 of the 14 constituencies counting. We had screens showing the progress of the count as bar-charts, but only for the 5 constituencies (Cr & Su, Me & Wa, SW, WC, Ea & Hi). Oh yes. Synchrography strikes again.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Apr 30, 2024 8:05:31 GMT
A very American style attack ad.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Apr 30, 2024 12:49:04 GMT
Your anecdotal feedback about the number of voters without ID would be interesting to the forum I imagine. I am a Presiding Officer on Thursday too. Only PCC election here, so perhaps those who are keen enough to vote in that will be less likely to not have ID? If it is difficult this time, I will not be working at the General Election. That’s three of us. I’m a polling clerk on Thu too. Only PCC elections here. I’m expecting it to be very very quiet.
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Apr 30, 2024 14:59:15 GMT
This was over 6 months ago.
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yorkshireluke
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Post by yorkshireluke on Apr 30, 2024 19:00:00 GMT
I am a Presiding Officer on Thursday too. Only PCC election here, so perhaps those who are keen enough to vote in that will be less likely to not have ID? If it is difficult this time, I will not be working at the General Election. That’s three of us. I’m a polling clerk on Thu too. Only PCC elections here. I’m expecting it to be very very quiet. While my anecdotes (after the day is finished, they're rightly very strict on these things) would be something, it's worth noting we are tracking those who get turned away due to lack of ID, incorrect ID, and also whether they later come back with the correct ID. Also collecting statistics on those using Voter Certificates and anonymous elector forms. I assume this data may be made public at a later date.
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yorkshireluke
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Post by yorkshireluke on Apr 30, 2024 19:03:01 GMT
I always thought poll clerks got to vote themselves at a different point in the day when they weren't on duty? No we're confined to the station all day, in my case, a train and a tube away from my assigned polling station. Had I known that from the time I applied I woulda sorted a postal but I only got the call on Friday and that's when I learnt about my predicament. Still, emergency proxy has gone through so all good in the end (even if the poor staffer on the phone today got confused as my proxy had their address in a different borough).
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cogload
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Post by cogload on May 1, 2024 9:15:02 GMT
More polls:
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on May 2, 2024 6:52:39 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on May 2, 2024 9:41:25 GMT
I just voted and needless to say I was the only one there.
The only excitement was a new polling place with the Alevi cultural centre replacing Wood Green library. Great for me as it is on the other side of the road (and a few doors down from Civica Electoral Services), but i suspect not great for turn out, given its obscurity compared to the library right in the middle of the High Road.
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nodealbrexiteer
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on May 2, 2024 10:06:04 GMT
I just voted and needless to say I was the only one there. The only excitement was a new polling place with the Alevi cultural centre replacing Wood Green library. Great for me as it is on the other side of the road (and a few doors down from Civica Electoral Services), but i suspect not great for turn out, given its obscurity compared to the library right in the middle of the High Road. That's one for Hall(kidding)
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ilerda
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Post by ilerda on May 2, 2024 12:23:12 GMT
I’d say there was a confident trickle at my local polling station (in Southwark) just after 9am.
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weld
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Post by weld on May 2, 2024 13:07:23 GMT
Pretty quiet when I voted in Highgate around 9.30 am.
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Sg1
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Post by Sg1 on May 2, 2024 13:51:22 GMT
Pretty quiet when I voted in Highgate around 9.30 am. You can say that again
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Post by carlton43 on May 2, 2024 13:58:35 GMT
Pretty quiet when I voted in Highgate around 9.30 am. Yes! Vote Early! Vote Often!!!
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